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Sexual Misconduct Policy Reform at Tufts University: Five Years of Student...
It’s February 2014. Thanks to a number of survivor-activists, the media has thrust the issue of sexual assault on college campuses into the mainstream. The Department of Education has received federal...
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I Chose To Be A Contradiction When I Was Fourteen
It was in my faint reflection of the Claire’s store window, breath misting the glass as I considered the previously-unattainable – strands of a glimmering customizable necklace on display, the promise...
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Suffragettes Who Sucked: White Supremacy And Women’s Rights
Suffragette: Susan B. Anthony, 1820-1906 (Social reformer, member of the Anti-Slavery Society, president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association) Hooray: “I think the girl who is able to...
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The Rules of Gender-Variant Chivalry
An asexual must always open the door for a pansexual. Trans* men must always assist genderqueers with their luggage if there are no airport personnel available to help. A high femme must do battle for...
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Women In Technology: A Visual Guide
This post is brought to you by A Reader. I recently attended a panel discussion about women in technology. The fun thing about this panel’s thought leaders was how they were all men. I assumed this...
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Movie Girlfriends Hate Heroism
There is nothing in the world a movie hero’s girlfriend hates more than heroism. At every turn, she looks for a way to stymie her doughty lover’s acts of courage. If she had her way, the movie would...
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Lessons From the Men I Met at Cannes
The first man I met at the 67th Cannes Film Festival was a fifty-something producer who insisted upon fetching me champagne I hadn’t asked for. Night was falling and La Croisette, Cannes’ swankiest...
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How Tolkien Characters Would Introduce Themselves in a Matriarchal Society
“Hi, I’m Aragon, son of Gilraen, son of Ivorwen. Would you or your mother like to rest your feet on me?” * “Hi, I’m Celeborn, but you can call me Ofgaladriel.” * “Hi, I’m...
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What Became of The Entwives: Political Lesbianism
“There have been no Entings — no children you would say, not for a terrible long count of years. You see, we lost the Entwives.” “How very sad!” said Pippin. “How was it then that they all died?” “They...
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Your Female Characters Are So Strong
Your female characters are so strong they’re flexing their way out of the written word, ripping the cover of your book apart, and leaping off the page to bench press unsuspecting readers. Your female...
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Women on Their Favorite Tools
Last week a friend of mine bragged on her social media about acquiring a shiny new mint-green scroll saw. Before I could derail her moment and bemoan my failure to replace my long lost cordless Dremel,...
View ArticleA Personal History of Misogyny
ONE I think sometimes of all the bad things that could happen to me. Does anybody else do this? All the ways I could be hurt, the exact level and amount I could suffer, and survive. It started, I...
View ArticleThe Biggest Problem Facing Feminism Today
More and more often, women today are asking themselves the important question: have I already had children? If so, when? Where are they? The most important issue facing modern feminists in today's...
View ArticleYou’re Not Stupid; Ello Is Badly Designed
Elena's previous work for The Toast can be found here. To count how many emails from professors I got during my years in undergrad, I would have to go back to my old email and do some fairly...
View ArticleFictional Characters Whose Lives Would Have Been Vastly Improved By An Abortion
Mrs. Bennet, Pride and Prejudice It becomes abundantly clear after the birth of Mary that things are not going to get better; Mr and Mrs Bennet at last have an overdue conversation about the state of...
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How My Employer Put the “FML” in FMLA
About nine months ago, as it became obvious that I was With Child to even the most absent-minded professors in my engineering research center, I had the following conversation about two or three times...
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The Fictional Spinster Classification Index
Fiction is full of spinsters, each one greater and more terrible than the last. Here are some of the more common species seen in the wild. Ready To Defrost (Harmless/Temporary) There is nothing wrong...
View ArticleThe Next Waves Of Feminism
Fourth wave - All regular women will become Catwomen. All Catwomen will become twenty feet tall and perch upon thrones of pearl and of onyx. All cats will gain the ability to laugh like humans, but not...
View ArticleThe Best Email I Have Ever Sent Or Received
This almost makes up for the fact that I was never able to updog that guy. Read more The Best Email I Have Ever Sent Or Received at The Toast.
View ArticleOn Running and Street Harassment
On Saturday, not for the first time, my dad offers to buy me a gun. I’m still in my running gear, sitting on my bed, certain I’m leaving sweaty ass-prints on my good quilt, but I’ve got no choice. I...
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